Individual ImmortalityJ. Murray, 1903 - 136 pages |
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... philosophy and their bearing on the great matter at issue . We are all profoundly interested in the question of our individual survival of death . We are not all in a position to weigh for ourselves the evidence for its reality or un ...
... philosophy and their bearing on the great matter at issue . We are all profoundly interested in the question of our individual survival of death . We are not all in a position to weigh for ourselves the evidence for its reality or un ...
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Emma Marie Caillard. 10 BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY [ CHAP . perhaps a few philosophers to whom the life and ardour of humanity are of less im- portance than intellectual abstractions and rounded logical systems . To the minds of all ordinary ...
Emma Marie Caillard. 10 BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY [ CHAP . perhaps a few philosophers to whom the life and ardour of humanity are of less im- portance than intellectual abstractions and rounded logical systems . To the minds of all ordinary ...
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... Philosophy , is against their faith in this respect , and they are distressed , unable to give a reason for the hope that is in them , or in fact do more than cling to it as too vital and too precious to renounce , but too fragile to ...
... Philosophy , is against their faith in this respect , and they are distressed , unable to give a reason for the hope that is in them , or in fact do more than cling to it as too vital and too precious to renounce , but too fragile to ...
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... Philosophy of our day , both these conceptions tend to make the individual of small account in comparison with the Whole , the All . And to a certain extent the result is a wider , less selfish appreciation of the cosmos and of man's ...
... Philosophy of our day , both these conceptions tend to make the individual of small account in comparison with the Whole , the All . And to a certain extent the result is a wider , less selfish appreciation of the cosmos and of man's ...
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... philosophy . Philosophy endeavours to go behind the postulates which Science perforce accepts unquestioningly , and to examine their credentials . Our concern in the present chapter , however , is not with Philosophy but with Science ...
... philosophy . Philosophy endeavours to go behind the postulates which Science perforce accepts unquestioningly , and to examine their credentials . Our concern in the present chapter , however , is not with Philosophy but with Science ...
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Page 32 - Thou makest thine appeal to me: I bring to life, I bring to death: The spirit does but mean the breath: I know no more.
Page 89 - That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it : This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it.
Page 15 - Hell, athirst alway? I do not see them here; but after death God knows I know the faces I shall see, Each one a murdered self, with low last breath. "I am thyself, — what hast thou done to me?" "And I — and I — thyself,
Page 133 - For which cause we faint not ; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory...
Page 110 - For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
Page 107 - Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth on me, though he die, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth on me shall never die.
Page 106 - Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
Page 120 - If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss; but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
Page 107 - And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ.
Page 132 - He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit down with me in my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father in his throne.